Click this 1-click installer for aTunes from Packman to download the YaST Metapackage file (YMP) for aTunes on openSUSE 11.0 & openSUSE 10.3. Once downloaded, this will automatically launch with YaST Package Manager to install aTunes. Click Next on the aTunes installation window and click next on the installation proposal window showing the repositories selected and the package selection for aTunes. This adds the required repositories and downloads and installs the aTunes and relevant dependency packages. Click Finish when the installation successfully completes.

This installs aTunes under “Applications – Multimedia” as “aTunes“.

Click aTunes from the menu to launch your newly installed aTunes.Launching for the first time, aTunes prompts you to select Music repositories. These are nothing but the directories where the music files exist. Select your directories and aTunes will start populating a list of available audio files. Create your playlists or add the audios to the playlist by selecting your audio and right-click and select “Add to Playlist”

The left navigation panel allows you to choose between the repositories or favorites, radio or podcasts or songs from your own device.

Once you have populated your playlist, select and play the song or you can set to repeat play and/or shuffle the playlist.

Lets look at some of the features. Click “Tools – Stats” to have a look some of the stats including songs most played, songs never played or albums most and never played and the same with the artists.

When you choose to play radio, you can browse radio channels available online from “Tools – Radio Browser“. Select your channel of choice and simply double-click to add to your existing list.

You can also create a smart playlist with options to choose from top most played songs or albums or artists or even random set of songs

One of the useful features include, editing the tags on the music. Right-click the music file and select tags and choose to edit tags or set auto tagging feature as per per your choice.
You can set the default global options from “Edit – Preference“.
Overall aTunes simple friendly Audio player and Manager with scope to mature. Click here to visit the homepage for aTunes.